2024 Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Mississippi

If you pursue a doctor's degree in law, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for law students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 236 doctor's degrees in law to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to law students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of law students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for law to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized law related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for law students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Law Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Mississippi list to help you make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Law in Mississippi

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in law.

Top Mississippi Schools for a Doctorate in Law

1

University of Mississippi
University, MS

142 Annual Graduates

University of Mississippi is a wonderful option for students pursuing a doctor's degree in law. Located in the remote town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in law from University of Mississippi

2

Mississippi College
Clinton, MS

94 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in law has to look into Mississippi College. Located in the suburb of Clinton, MC is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in law from Mississippi College

Best Law Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Law Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	2,043
Virginia	127	1,111
Georgia	126	879
North Carolina	115	1,005
Louisiana	103	719
Tennessee	102	597
Alabama	98	305
South Carolina	91	388
Kentucky	87	347
Arkansas	58	241
West Virginia	49	104

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Law Related Rankings by Major

Law is one of 4 different types of Legal Professions programs to choose from.

Law Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Law	236

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.